HC Deb 27 July 1999 vol 336 c278W
Mr. Love

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps the Government are taking to recruit more black and minority ethnic people into the police force; and if he will make a statement. [93608]

Mr. Boateng

I refer my hon. Friend to the replies I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, East (Mr. Vaz), on 23 March 1999,Official Report, column 174 and to my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton, North-East (Mr. Crausby), on 26 April 1999, Official Report, columns 17-18.